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A. That is how Wagner reported it to me.
Q. Well, why had the
Security Service consulted Wagner about this do, do you know?
A. I
don’t know through what channel Wagner received that information. His
department military administration dealt with questions of executive power and
received its information from all sorts of sources.
Q. And you don’t know, as a matter of
fact, that insane persons were executed in the operational area?
A. No. I never heard
anything about it, and I repeat that when I asked sometime later, perhaps there
is an entry to that effect also in my diary — when I asked, I was told
that these people had been accommodated outside of the institute in which they
had been quartered so far.
Q. You told Wagner that it was no concern of the High Command of the
Army what the Security Service did in the operational, is that right?
A. No. I didn’t say
that.
Q. I thought that
that was what you said a few moments ago. Well what did you say to Wagner when
he reported this to you?
A. I told Wagner that no agency of the army would lend a hand to such
actions.
Q. Did you know
that insane people in Germany were executed during the war pursuant to a
euthanasia decree?
A. I
didn't hear anything to that effect during the war, but before the war I heard
about it, and I was in personal contact with clerical circles who opposed and
fought this decree. |
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| 4. MEASURES AGAINST THE JEWS |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NOKW-1531 |
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[PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 587 |
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| EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM COMMANDER OF ARMY REAR AREA 550, 20 AUGUST
1940, INCORPORATING COPY OF LETTER FROM COMMANDER IN CHIE OF 18TH ARMY,
CONTAINING DIRECTIVES CONCERNING ETHNIC STRUGGLE IN THE EAST |
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| [Handwritten] War Diary |
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| Commander of Army Rear Area 550 |
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| [Stamp] Secret |
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